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"  Wriaf,  tl^eri,  cari  I  do?    Can  I  enshrine  rny  spirit  irj  your  hearts,  so  t\\at 

winen  I  fall  irj  trie  ranKs  (as  I  riope  to  fall  iri  trie  very  front  ranKs  of  tr\is 
contest),  and  wrien  rny  arrrl  sr\all  no  longer  strike,  and  rny  voice  no  longer 
cr^eer,  you  nqay  pursue  trie  conflict,  and  win  trie  victory,—  trie  victory  of 
righteousness  Under  trie  banner  of  Jesus  Christ?  ...  I  beseecri  you 
to  treasure  Up  in  your  hearts  triese,  rny  parting  words:  BE  HSHRMED  TO 
DIE  UNTIL  YOU  HHYE  WON  SOME  VICTORY  FOR  HUMANITY." 

Baccalaureate  Adclresss  of  1859. 


flbemorial  Exercises. 
•  •  •  • 

FOR    THE    CENTENARY   OF   THE  BIRTH    OF 

Horace    Mann, 

TO    BE    HELD    IN   ANTIOCH    COLLEGE, 
YELLOW   SPRINGS,    OHIO,    JUNE    16,    1896. 

•   •   • 


program. 


9   O'CLOCK,   A.    M. 
Address,  Hon.  W.  A.  Bell,  Indianapolis,  Indiana. 

(  CLASS   OF   I860.   > 

2:30   O'CLOCK,   P.    M. 

Address,  Dr.  Edward  Orton,  State  University,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

(  president  of  antioch  college,  1872.  ) 

3:15  O'CLOCK,  P.  M . 
Address,  Dr.  J.  B.  Weston,  President  oe  Christian  Biblical  Institute, 

Stanfordville,  New  York. 

<  CLASS   OF  1857.  ) 

8  TO  10    O'CLOCK,    P.    M. 
Reunion  of  Alumni,  Students  and  Friends  of  antioch  College, 


Dear  Friends:— 

fit  trie  rqeetirig  of  trie  AlUnqni  of  i=lritiocr|  College  last  si!rr\rr\er,  trie 
fact  was  rioted  trjat  tl\e  present  year,  1896,  was  tr\e  Itundredtt)  anniversary 
of  tr\e  birtt]  of  Y\er  farr\oxis  first  President,  Horace  Mann> 

Measures  were  proposed  and  taKen  to  celebrate  trie  event  r^ere,  by  call- 
ing together  frorn  near  and  far  trie  children  of  trie  College,  trjat  trjey  nqigr^t 
rneet  and  clasp  t|ands  at  trie  serine  wt|ere  one  of  tr\e  first  educators  of  trie 
age  offered  Up  r\is  life  in  trjeir  behalf. 

TriroUgt]  trie  colunqns  of  tr\is  paper,  Antiocri  rnost  cordially  invites  and 
urges  you  to  corne  to  Y\er,  and  assist  in  rquKing  trie  occasion  Wt|at  it  should 
be,— one  to  be  rerr\err|bered  forever.  Corne  to  trie  spot  fallowed  by  a  thous- 
and associations,  into  wr|icr|  Horace  Mann  breathed  a  life  trjat  can  never 
die.  You  nqay  or  rqay  not  rjave  seen  r\inq,  but,  conciously  or  unconsciously 
to  you,  r|e  l)as  influenced  your  lives  and  trie  lives  of  ttiose  wl\o  rjave  been 
called  to  fill  rjis  place, 

Tt]en  conqe,  and,— to  Use  a  favorite  quotation  of  r\is,  — "  Orient  your- 
selves," and  go  fortri  again,   refreshed,  to  trie  duties  of  life, 


Horace  Mann, 

BORN   IN  FRANKLINTON,   MASS.,   MAY  4,  1796. 
DIED  AT  YELLOW   SPRINGS,   OHIO,   AUGUST  2,    1859. 

•    •    •    • 

Hfter  a  temporary  interment  ir\  tlqe  grounds  of  Hritiocl)  College,  in  a 
spot  now  nqarKed,  tlqroUglq  tlqe  care  of  later  Hritiocl],  Witlq  a  granite  slqaft, 
Iqis  body  Was  removed  to  Providence,  R.  I.,  Wlqere  it  still  rerqains. 

Ir)  tlqe  too  slqort  space  of  r\is  life,  Iqe  Was  associated  witlq  sonqe  of  trie 
greatest  narnes  and  greatest  reforrns  of  l\is  tinqe  and  nation.  He  was  Sec- 
retary of  trie  Board  of  Education  in  Massachusetts,  Menqber  of  Congress, 
and  gave  Up  Iqis  nomination  as  Governor  in  order  to  accept  tlqe  Presidency 
of  Hntiocri  College. 

Hs  truly  as  any  Iqero,  rqartyr,  saint,—  Iqe  took  Up  Iqis  cross  at  trie  latter 
place,  and  died,  "  a  brave  soldier  in  tlqe  War  of  liberation  of  IqUnqanity." 
Nothing  can  better  slqow  tlqe  nqiglqt  and  influence  of  Iqis  character  tlqaiq  tlqe 
fact  tlqat  eaclq  succeeding  year  Iqas  only  served  to  deepen  tlqe  inqpression 
it  n)ade. 


TWtfiocf]  ir>  the  'JTrrje  of  j|orace  ]VUni). 


In  one  sense  a  college  begins  its  career  when  it 
first  opens  its  doors  for  the  admission  of  students, 
but  to  onlookers  it  is  little  more  than  a  college  in 
the  making  until  it  has  sent  out  into  the  world  its 
first  graduates,  whose  accomplishments  bear  wit- 
ness to  the  kind  of  work  which  the  institution  is 
fitted  to  do.  I  was  not  a  witness  of  the  gathering 
together  of  the  raw  material  out  of  which  the  first 
Antioch  classes  were  largely  formed,  but,  for" 
tunatelv,  there  are  a  few  men  and  women  still 
among  us  who  can  speak  of  those  earliest  days 
from  personal  knowledge.  My  own  connection 
with  the  institution  dates  from  the  early  part  of 
the  academic  year  in  which  it  first  had  a  Senior 
class,  that  is,  from  the  autumn  of  1856,  and  it  is 


of  some  of  the  elements  of  its  life  during  the  six 
years  preceding  the  suspension  of  the  college  in 
1862, — quaeque  ipse  vidi,  et  quorum  pars  fui, — 
that  I  purpose  to  write  briefly. 

College  coeducation  in  those  days  -was  still  a 
novelty.  Oberlin,  almost  if  not  cpiite  alone  of 
American  colleges,  had  already  opened  its  doors  to 
women  as  well  as  men,  and  to  white  and  black 
alike.  It  was  announced  from  the  beginning  that 
the  policy  of  Antioch  would  be  no  less  inclusive. 
It  might  have  been  expected  that  Horace  Mann, 
the  staunch  defender  of  human  liberty  on  the  floor 
of  the  national  congress  and  wherever  else  oppor- 
tunity offered,  would  brook  no  discrimination  of 
race  in  an  institution   presided  over  by  him,  but 


Iborace  Mann 

one  could  hardly  have  anticipated  so  hearty  a  wel- 
come on  his  part  to  the  doctrine  of  the  equal  intel- 
lectual rights  of  women,  considering  that  in  his 
own  New  England  a  college-trained  woman  had 
never  yet  been  heard  of.  Antioch  even  bettered  the 
example  of  Oberlin,  for  whereas  the  latter  had  a 
modified  course  of  study  for  women,  supposed  to 
be  better  suited  to  feminine  needs  and  the  ordinary 
feminine  capacity,  the  younger  institution  offered 
one  curriculum  to  all.  In  the  light  of  the  exper- 
ience of  the  last  forty  years  it  need  hardly  be  said 
that  the  women  who  responded  to  this  welcome 
needed  to  have  no  concessions  made  to  their  im- 
agined intellectual  inferiority. 

Another  respect  in  which  it  was  the  determina- 
tion of  Mr.  Mann  that  Antioch  should  be  favora- 
bly distinguished  from  other  colleges,  was  its 
stronger  insistence  upon  the  possession  of  an  irre- 
proachable moral  character  by  its  students  as  an 
indispensable  condition  of  graduation.  Not  that 
American  colleges  in  general  altogether  ignored 
this  qualification  ;  but,  as  a  rule,  it  was  only  open 


Centenary.  7 

and  flagrant  vice  of  which  college  faculties  took 
note  in  those  days.  That  a  man  should  be  in  danger 
of  losing  a  college  diploma  because  he  was  known  to 
be  somewhat  addicted  to  profane  swearing,  was  a 
thing  probably  never  before  heard  of.  The  most 
striking  characteristic  of  Mr.  Mann's  nature  was 
his  ethical  passion.  To  whatever  seemed  to  him 
to  be  duty,  he  gave  the  unstinted  service  of  all  the 
powers  of  a  mind  of  unusual  vigor  if  not  of  the 
greatest  philosophical  depth.  To  feel  that  a  thing 
was  right,  either  for  himself  or  others,  was  a  chal- 
lenge to  its  performance,  or  to  its  earnest  defence 
if  nothing  more  was  possible,  which  he  never  al- 
lowed to  go  unheeded.  So  keen  -was  his  scent  for 
unethical  forms  of  procedure,  that  some  features  of 
his  code  of  morals  seemed  to  ordinarj'  mortals  al- 
most if  not  quite  fanatical.  He  willingly  shared 
with  me  the  expense  of  the  exclusive  control  of  a 
bowling  alley  for  the  summer  of  1857,  in  our  vaca- 
tion retreat  on  the  island  of  Mackinaw,  for  exercise 
only  ;  no  game  was  to  be  played  which  should 
test  the  comparative  skill  of  the  players,  for  that 


8  Iborace  rtfcann  Centenary. 

would  be  to  arouse  a  spirit  of  competition  and  to 
encourage  an  uncommendable  strife  for  victory ; 
each  one  was  simply  to  exercise  his  muscles  with- 
out any  reference  to  what  the  muscles  of  the  other 
were  accomplishing.  It  this  mental  attitude  seems 
to  anyone  senseless  and  even  ridiculous,  let  him 
remember  that  it  was  the  outcome,  however 
strained,  of  that  truly  ethical  sentiment  which 
condemns  the  effort  of  one  human  being  to  over- 
power or  get  the  advantage  of  another.  But  an 
example  of  this  thorough-going  conscientiouness 
upon  a  higher  plane  is  not  wanting.  Nothing  in 
matters  pertaining  to  education  seemed  to  him 
more  to  stand  in  need  of  amendment  than  the 
ordinary  relations  subsisting  between  teacher  and 
pupil.  The  notion,  whether  native  or  English-born 
it  matters  not,  that  the  schoolmaster  and  his 
scholars  are  by  nature  mutual  enemies,  and  the 
kindred  notion  derived  from  this,  that  scholars 
should  band  together  against  the  common  enemy 
and  endeavor  to  shelter  from  merited  discipline  all 
offenders  against  law,  were  both  supremely  hateful 


to  him.  At  Antioch  he  set  himself  to  eradicate  all 
traces  of  this  most  irrational  temper.  His  first 
and  most  practical  effort  in  this  direction  was  to 
win  the  members  of  the  upper  classes  not  only  to 
a  recognition  of  the  soundness  of  his  views,  but 
also  to  a  hearty  willingness  to  undertake  to  make 
them  prevail  among  the  students  as  a  recognized 
ethical  standard.  It  is  not  to  be  supposed 
that  all  traces  of  the  old  leaven  could  be  at  once 
removed,  especially  in  an  institution  whose  pre- 
paratory department  was  largely  made  up  of  a 
constantly  fluctuating  element ;  but  the  first  grad- 
uating classes  did  to  a  marked  extent  contribute 
to  the  good  order  and  discipline  of  the  college  by 
openly  placing  themselves  on  record  as  aiders  and 
not  opponents  of  the  constituted  authorities  in 
their  efforts  for  the  promotion  of  the  best  welfare 
of  the  whole  college  community.  When,  upon  the 
death  of  Mr.  Mann  and  the  accession  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Hill  to  the  presidency,  Dr.  Bellows  re- 
marked to  the  new  president  that  there  were  some 
peculiar  notions  of  his  predecessor  with  regard  to 


college  management  with 
would  have  no  sympathy — referring  to  the  views 
jnst  now  spoken  of— the  reply  came  very  promptly 
that  no  educational  opinions  of  Mr.  Mann  com- 
mended themselves  to  him  more  completely  than 
these. 

Since  Mr.  Mann  and  the  present  writer  had 
inherited  from  two  of  the  older  New  England  uni- 
versities those  traditions  concerning  the  true  ideal 
of  collegiate  education  whose  glory  had  not  in 
those  days  been  questioned,  it  was  natural  that 
our  conferences  upon  college  matters  should  be 
exceptionally  frequent.  Without  distinctly  and  by 
name  setting  before  us  Harvard  and  Brown  as 
examples  for  imitation,  doubtless  our  more  inti- 
mate acquaintance  with  the  methods  of  these  two 
institutions  had  its  marked  influence  in  determin- 
ing the  recommendations  which  we  made  to  the 


Iborace  /Ifcann  Centenary.  9 

which    he    doubtless       faculty    concerning    scholastic    requirements    and 


especially  the  demands  to  be  made  upon  those  who 
would  win  the  honors  of  the  institution.  Not  to 
institute  comparisons  in  any  direction,  it  may  be 
said  without  risk  of  contradiction  that  from  the 
very  outset,  few  of  the  older  colleges  of  the  coun- 
try did  better  work  and  secured  better  results, 
making  due  allowance  for  the  difficulties  attendant 
upon  a  new  undertaking,  than  the  then  western 
but  now  central  college  over  which  Horace 
Mann  was  so  fortunately  called  to  preside — for- 
tunately, though  it  cost  him  years  of  anxious  toil 
and  a  shortened  life, — for  the  blood  of  the  martyrs 
is  the  seed  not  of  the  church  alone,  but  of  every 
enterprise  which  looks  to  the  moulding  of  men 
into  the  image  of  God. 

George  L.  Cary, 
President  of  Meadville  Theological  School. 


Rev.  Thomas  Hill,  D.  D. 


JANUARY   7,   1888, 


NOVEMBER  21,    1891. 


"Transparently  frank,  guileless,  unsparingly 
faithful  in  duty,  .  .  .  he  manifested  in  his  whole 
life  the  beauty  and  power  of  the  religion  of  which 
he  was  the  earnest  and  devoted  minister.  He  can 
have  had  no  enemies,  but  more  friends  than  can  be 
counted.  A.  P.  Peabody. 

"The  world  will  remember  him  as  the  philos- 
opher, the  man  of  science,  the  learned  theologian 
and  preacher,  profoundly  thoughtful,  the  great 
student,  the  scholar  of  almost  universal  attain- 
ments, who  made  pilgrimages  to  all  the  holy  lands 
of  literature  and  learning ;  who  loved  to  loiter  on 


the  way  wherever  the  mood  invited,  and  to  bring 
back,  as  from  adventurous  voyages,  the  marvels 
of  his  discovery  and  research,  and  all  this  great- 
ness of  attainment,  combined  with  rare  kindliness 
and  simplicity  of  life  and  with  a  stately  purity 
and  nobility  of  character.  Nor  will  he  be  forgot- 
ten as  one  who  has  added  his  own  share  to  what 
is  beautiful  in  our  poetry. 

In  this  world  there  remain  for  him  only  love, 
good  will  and  grateful  remembrances,  to  crown 
with  honor  the  close  of  faithful  service  and  a  holy 
life."  J.  C.  Perkins. 


Some  Reminiscences   of  Thomas  Hill,   Second   President  of   Antioch. 

I  returned  to  Antioch  after  an  absence  of  some       was  one  of  the  crowd   of  anxious  students  who 
years,  just  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Mann,  so  that  I       assembled  to  welcome  our  new  president. 


Iborace  rtfcann 

Our  orator  forgot  part  of  his  address  of  wel- 
come, and  Mr.  Hill  helped  him  out  with  tact  and 
kindness.  I  wonder  if  that  }roung  man,  now  a 
successful  lawyer  in  a  distant  citv,  has  ever  again 
been  as  scared  as  he  was  when  he  welcomed  the 
new  President  to  Antioch  ? 

I  see  by  reference  to  Dr.  A.  P.  Peabody's  bio- 
graphical notice  that  Thomas  Hill  was  placed  at 
the  age  of  twelve  years  in  a  newspaper  office.  He 
speaks  of  his  first  literary  production,  a  New 
Year's  address  to  the  patrons  of  the  paper.  He 
does  not  mention  however  that  the  boy  was 
poorly  housed  and  worse  fed,  became  desperate 
and  ran  away  with  a  comrade.  His  nephew,  who 
told  me  of  this  adventure,  used  to  point  out  a  fine 
residence  in  Princeton  and  say^,  "Uncle  Tom  slept 
one  night  on  an  ash  heap  in  that  yard." 

It  was  always  a  comfort  to  me  to  know  that  a 
boy  who  had  slept  on  an  ash  heap  in  Princeton, 
should  have  been  at  his  next  visit  to  the  place, 
ex-president  of  Antioch  and  of  Harvard.  It  gave 
me  hope  for  boys  in  general,  boys  of  the  present 


Centenary.  U 

and  boys  of  the  future.  He  ran  away  from  neg- 
lect and  abuse  but  yielded  to  kindness  and  good 
treatment. 

His  methods  with  the  young  were  the  outgrowth 
of  his  own  experiences.  While  pastor  of  the  First 
Church  at  Waltham,  Mass..  he  became  quite  an 
active  worker  on  the  school  board,  and  was  for  a 
long  time  chairman  of  the  same.  One  day  a  bov 
who  was  considered  incorrigible  was  sent  to  him. 
As  he  came  into  the  study,  Dr.  Hill  merely  mo- 
tioned him  to  a  seat  and  apparently  went  on  with 
his  work.  In  reality  he  was  watching  the  boy. 
The  latter  rather  restless  and  uneasy,  sat  waiting 
for  awhile,  but  finally  began  to  examine  the  books 
in  the  case,  selected  one,  and  was  soon  absorbed 
enough  to  forget  his  present  difficulties.  Then  the 
good  doctor  found  the  clew  he  wanted.  When  he 
knew  that  the  boy  liked  to  read  he  furnished  him 
with  books,  and  fairly  won  his  heart.  In  this  and 
every  other  way,  he  was  intelligently  kind  and 
gentle  to  us  all.  He  seemed  afraid  of  nothing  so 
much  as  of  misunderstanding  or  underrating  us. 


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Iborace  /iftann  Centenary. 


During  his  presidency  at  Harvard  a  student  was 
sent  to  him  for  being  repeatedly  late  to  chapel. 
Instead  of  scolding  him  the  Doctor  looked  up  and 

asked,  "  Mr. ,  what  do  you  drink  for  supper  ?" 

"Milk."  "Ah.  I  thought  so.  Leave  it  off,  and 
see  if  you  don't  wake  up  more  easily  in  the  morn- 
ing." 

Thus  he  solved  our  difficulties,  and  won  our  love 
and  loyalty  at  the  same  time.  We  were  ashamed 
of  being  mean  or  dishonest  before  a  presence  that 
saw  us  as  we  were,  and  yet  was  never  harsh  or 
unkind. 

One  of  the  Antioch  students  finding  herself  with- 
out sufficient  means  to  spend  her  senior  year  at 
college  was  just  preparing  to  leave,  when  a  note 
was  handed  her  containing  the  required  sum.  Dr. 
Hill  had  sent  it  through  a  third  party  because  he 
did    not    want    the   student   to   know    who    had 


helped  her.  Years  afterward,  when  she  felt  able  to 
repay  him  and  offered  to  do  so,  he  bade  her  keep 
the  money  and  help  some  one  else  with  it.  Both 
she  and  her  good  husband  have  helped  the  weary 
and  discouraged  and  needy  ever  since.  As  Lowell 
says : — 

"  the  holy  supper  is  kept  indeed 
In  whatso  we  share  with  another's  need." 

Dr.  Hill  shared  his  goods  with  us,  as  did  the  de- 
voted teachers  who  labored  with  him.  There  was 
gratitude  and  devotion  for  them,  but  very  little 
money. 

Our  president  had  his  faults,  for  he  was  after 
all  human,  but  he  had  great  love  and  great 
patience;  and  with  love  enough  and  patience 
enough  and  strength  enough,  one  can  surety  over- 
come the  difficulties  of  life. 

Therese  Byington  Hill. 


Reminiscences  of  Dr.  Austin  Craig, 


Among  the  men  of  unique  character  who  have 
been  associated  in  the  Faculty  of  Antioch  College, 
one  of  the  most  conspicuous  is  the  Rev.  Austin 
Craig,  D.  D.  Everyone  who  knew  him  was  won 
to  him  by  the  full-rounded  loveliness  of  his  spirit, 
his  transparent  goodness,  the  clearness  of  his 
head,  and  the  warmth  of  his  heart.  His  religious 
convictions  and  his  life  were  so  pure,  so  self- 
consistent,  so  really  Christlike  and  inspiring  to 
others,  that  "those  who  were  of  the  contrary 
part,  "  if  there  were  any  such,  could  have  no  evil 
thing  to  say  of  him. 

Dr.  Craig  was  born  in  Peapack,  N.  J.,  of  a  fam- 
ily of  large  wealth  and  influence  for  the  time,  of 
decidedly  christian  character,  and  members  of  the 
Christian  church.  Austin  manifested  no  special 
signs  of  genius  till  his  public  profession  of  religion 
and  uniting  with  the  church.     After  this  he  pre- 


pared for  college,  and  entered  Lafayette  College, 
at  Eaton,  Penn.  Here  he  held  a  good  rank  in  his 
class,  but  was  especially  interested  in  the  study  of 
the  Bible.  Shortly  before  graduation,  for  some 
reason,  he  withdrew  from  the  college  without 
taking  his  degree.*  Though  very  young,  less  than 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  commenced  preaching 
in  Feltville,  a  small  manufacturing  town  not  far 
from  his  home.  Here  he  showed  his  independence 
of  thought  as  well  as  devotion  of  spirit,  and 
wrote  and  published  several  small  tracts  of  both 
speculative  and  practical  nature,  in  the  line  of 
what  he  deemed  to  be  needed  reforms.  Afterwards 
he  preached  to  churches  in  New  York  City  and 
Fall  River,  Mass. 
He  was  an  omnivorous  reader  as  well  as  an  in- 


*The  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  was  afterwards  conferred  on 
him  by  the  College. 


u 


Iborace  /Ibann  Centenary. 

He  became  greatly  interested       Craig  was  then  engaged,  for  his  own  profit,  in  a 


dependent  thinker 
in  the  writings  of  Emanuel  Swedenborg,  and 
though  he  never  became  a  disciple,  the  thought 
and  spirit  of  the  mystical  Seer  gave  a  tinge  to  his 
own  thought  and  spirit  in  all  his  later  life.  Subse- 
quently he  was  called  to  the  pastorship  of  the 
church  in  Blooming  Grove,  Orange  county,  N.  Y. 
This  had  formerly  been  the  original  Presbyterian 
parish  of  the  town,  but  its  pastor,  Dr.  Arbuckle, 
having  incurred  the  displeasure  of  the  Presbytery 
for  some  alleged  heresies  of  teaching,  withdrew 
from  the  denomination.  His  church  followed  him 
and  stood  independent.  It  was  a  large  church 
composed  of  the  wealthy  and  intelligent  farmers 
as  well  as  lawyers  and  other  business  men  of  the 
town.  Here  Dr.  Craig  remained  as  pastor  for 
nearly  twenty-five  years. 

Here  he  first  met  Horace  Mann.  Through  his 
influence  Mr.  Mann  was  invited  there  to  give  his 
lecture  to  Young  Men.  He  was  entertained  by 
Mr.  Craig,  and  was  struck  by  his  conscientious 
sincerity  as  well  as  by  his  quiet  scholarship.     Mr. 


word-for-word  translation  of  the  New  Testament 
from  Greek  into  English.  The  uniqueness  and 
thoroughness  of  the  work  he  was  doing  struck 
Mr.  Mann  with  especial  interest,  and  he  conceived 
a  great  admiration  and  a  warm  friendship  for  his 
host  which  lasted  during  his  life.  He  frequently 
said  that  he  had  never  met  a  man  who  seemed  to 
him  so  nearly  the  ideal  of  Jesus  Christ  as  Austin 
Craig. 

When  Dr.  Holmes,  the  original  professor  of 
Greek  on  the  Antioch  Faculty,  obtained  leave  of 
absence  and  went  to  Europe,— at  the  earnest  solic- 
itation of  President  Mann  Dr.  Craig  was  called  to 
take  the  chair  during  his  absence.  Thus  he  first 
became  attached  to  the  Antioch  corps  of  instruct- 
ors. Though  his  success  in  the  routine  of  class 
work  did  not  equal  his  scholarship,  he  became  an  in- 
fluential member  of  the  Faculty.  He  was  especially 
the  preaching  member.  In  his  head  and  heart  he 
was  a  prophet  of  goodness.  The  resources  from 
which  he  drew  seemed  inexhaustible.    Start  him 


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at  any  time,  and  a  sermon  would  flow  out.  When 
speaking,  he  became  oblivious  of  everything  but 
his  subject.  Tho'  his  voice  was  weak  and  low, 
and  there  was  no  demonstrativeness  in  his  man- 
ner, the  originality  of  his  thought,  the  freshness 
of  his  expression,  and  the  charm  of  his  spirit,  gave 
his  sermons  a  peculiar  attractiveness  and  force. 
Everybody  liked  to  hear  him  preach.  But  his  ser- 
mons were  long,  frequently  lasting  an  hour  and  a 
half.  His  large-headed,  broad-minded  Blooming 
Grove  parishioners,  who  rode  five  or  six  miles  for 
a  single  service  on  Sunday,  were  not  satisfied  with 
a  short  sermon,  and  he  had  formed  his  habit  ac- 
cordingly. The  members  of  the  Faculty  expostu- 
lated with  him  on  the  length  of  his  sermons,  and 
assured  him  that  with  half  the  time  he  would  clo 
as  much  good  and  save  himself  the  work ;  but  he 
said  that  while  speaking  he  knew  nothing  of  the 
lapse  of  time.  They  urged  him  to  consult  his 
watch,  and  stop  at  the  end  of  forty-five  minutes, 
at  the  longest.  He  promised  to  try  it.  And  one 
day,  at  the  end  of  about  forty-five  minutes,  I  saw 


him  take  out  his  watch,  and  thought  he  was 
going  to  look  at  it  and  stop.  But  without  look- 
ing at  all,  he  held  the  watch  in  one  hand,  rubbing 
its  face  with  the  other,  and  in  that  position  kept 
on  talking  for  forty-five  minutes  more.  And  it 
seemed  that  not  a  word  could  be  spared. 

The  sweetness  and  purity  of  his  private  life,  and 
the  strong  social  element  in  his  nature,  gave  him  a 
great  influence  over  all  who  associated  with  him, 
and  makes  his  memory  beloved. 

After  a  year  or  two  in  the  Greek  professorship, 
he  returned  to  his  Blooming  Grove  church ;  but  on 
the  reconstruction  of  the  Faculty  in  1857,  in  the 
interim  preparatory  to  the  sale  and  repurchase  of 
the  college  propert}r,  he  was  recalled  to  another 
chair.  It  was  at  this  time  that  he  met  and  became 
engaged  to  Miss  Adelaide  Churchill,  a  member  of 
the  class  of  1858.  This  was  the  occasion  of  Dr. 
Warriner's  conundrum  : —  "How  is  it  that  some 
members  of  the  graduating  class  are  older  than 
members  of  the  Faculty?"  The  answer  was, — 
"Because  Miss  Churchill  is   Dr.  Craig's   Senior." 


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He  soon  afterward  was  married  to  Miss  Churchill, 
and  went  again  to  his  work  in  Blooming  Grove. 

It  was  about  this  time  that,  on  the  recommen- 
dation of  President  Mann,  the  Trustees  conferred 
on  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity.  This  was 
not  in  harmony  with  the  simplicity  of  his  tastes. 
He  declined  to  accept  it,  and  desired  not  to  be  ad- 
dressed by  the  title.  His  wish  was  respected  by 
his  friends  as  far  as  possible ;  but  when  he  became 
head  of  the  Christian  Biblical  Institute,  the  title 
attached  to  him  in  spite  of  his  wishes. 

When,  on  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  Dr.  Hill  re- 
signed the  Presidency,  the  Faculty  were  scattered, 
and  a  large  part  of  the  College  work  was  suspend- 
ed, Dr.  Craig  was  made  President  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  with  leave  to  remain  in  Blooming  Grove. 
Prof.  Weston  was  acting  President,  and  assumed 
the  general  responsibility  of  the  College  work.  Dr. 
Craig  returned  at  Commencements,  and  gave  the 
diploma  to  the  one  graduate  of  each  year.  On  the 
endowment,  and  the  re-opening  of  full  College  work, 
after  the  war,  he  was  continued  as  acting  Presi- 


Iborace  /Ifcann  Centenary. 

dent,  and  removed  with  his  family  to  Yellow 
Springs,  tendering  his  final  resignation  as  pastor 
at  Blooming  Grove.  He  remained  at  Antioch  till 
his  resignation  and  the  election  of  Dr.  Hosmer  in 
1867.  During  this  time  he  had  charge  of  the  phil 
osophical  and  ethical  studies  of  the  senior  classes, 
and  prepched  at  the  College  on  Sundays.  It  was 
at  this  time  also,  and  through  his  influence,  that 
Professor  Edward  Orton  was  called  to  be  Princi- 
pal of  the  Preparatory  department.  He  proved, 
as  is  well  known,  a  strong  supporter  to  Dr.  Craig, 
and  added  great  strength  to  the  Faculty. 

The  classes  that  came  under  Dr.  Craig's  care,  the 
students  and  others  that  listened  to  his  preaching, 
and  the  Faculty  that  was  associated  with  him  in 
the  daily  work  of  the  College,  felt  that  his  life, 
and  speech  and  all  his  influence  was  a  benediction. 
And  the  equanimity  with  which  he  bore  himself, 
the  firmness  and  yet  impartial  friendliness  mani- 
fested by  him  during  church  difficulties  that  oc- 
curred while  he  was  in  Yellow  Springs,  gave  him 
the  confidence  of   all  parties  except  a  few    who 


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would  have  liked  to  use  him  for  selfish  ends,  and 
could  not.  By  those  who  were  members  of  the 
College,  or  citizens  of  the  town  while  he  was  con- 
nected with  the  College,  he  will  always  be  remem- 
bered with  great  esteem. 

Soon  after  leaving  Antioch,  Dr.  Craig  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  Presidency  of  the  Christian  Biblical 
Institute,  serving  a  year  in  the  meantime  as  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Christian  church,  of  New  Bedford, 
Mass.  The  Institute  was  opened,  under  his  Pres- 
idency in  the  buildings  of  Starkey  Seminary,  N.  Y., 
in  the  fall  of  1868.  In  1872  the  school  was  re- 
moved to  Stanford ville,  its  present  location.  He 
remained  in  this  position,  giving  to  the  students  of 
the  Institute  the  benefit  of  his  inimitable  daily  lec- 
tures, till  August,  1881,  when  his  sudden  death 
brought  sorrow  to  many  hearts  throughout  the 


country.  He  had  been  enjoying  his  usual  health, 
and  on  the  day  previous  to  his  death  had  been 
gathering  pears  from  a  favorite  tree,  and  carrying 
them  to  the  house  on  his  shoulder.  At  night  he 
had  a  painful  and  sudden  attack  of  what  the  phy- 
sicians called  cholera,  though  it  lacked  the  usual 
symptoms  of  that  disease,  and  at  ten  o'clock  on 
the  next  day  he  quietly  breathed  his  last  in  the 
bosom  of  his  family. 

Any  who  remember  Dr.  Craig,  could  give  many 
reminiscences  of  unique  things  of  his  doing  and 
saying.  Space,  however,  will  not  allow  us  to  enter 
upon  them.  But  of  the  good  men  who  have  been 
connected  with  the  Faculty  of  Antioch,— and  there 
is  a  grand  galaxy  of  them — no  one  is  more  to  be 
remembered  for  his  transparent  goodness  that. 
Dr.  Austin  Craig.  J.  B.  Weston. 


■* 


m|,,f: 


Dr.  George  W.  Hosmer. 


Rev.  George  Washington  Hosmer,  D.D.,  was  born 
in  Concord,  Mass.,  Nov.  27, 1803,  and  died  in  1881. 

Pastor  for  thirty  years  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  he  was 
President  of  Antioeh  College  from  1866  to  1873  — 
"seven  years  of  marked  and  beautiful  influence," — 
and  for  five  years  pastor  at  Newton,  Mass. 

"A  holy  man,  with  large  experience,  excellent 
judgment,  and  entire  consecration  of  mind  and 
heart.  His  grand  frame  and  broad,  smiling  face 
dignified  carriage  and  sonorous  voice,  with  his 
careful  attention  to  manners  and  costume,  gave 
him  a  natural  superiority.  To  carry  a  smile  like 
his  around  the  world  requires  great  essential 
worth  and  dignity  of  character  to  save  it  from  be- 


coming sentimental  and  weak.  It  was  his  charm, 
and  perhaps  somewhat  his  cross,  for  nobody  could 
be  as  uniformly  sweet  and  tender  as  he  looked. 
But  broad  and  general  as  his  smile  was,  he  lived 
up  to  it,  and  felt  what  it  indicated  as  nearly  as 
any  creature  of  mortal  flesh  and  blood  could.  It 
was  the  genuine  expression  of  a  rare  good  nature, 
a  true  love  for  his  kind,  an  easy,  ready  power  of 
making  the  best  of  everything,  a  native  and  prin- 
cipled benignity,  springing  from  a  full  and  gener- 
ous heart,  and  maintained  by  the  power  of  a  good 
conscience  and  a  determined  will.  .  .  .  We  should 
expect  to  see  his  grave  smiling  with  flowers,  even 
in  winter."  Henry  W.  Bellows. 


Antioeh    under  Dr.   Hosmer. 

The  arrival  of  my  father  and  myself  at  Yellow       together,  with  our  families,  on  a  tempestuous  even- 
Springs  took  place  in  Septemeer,  1866.     We  came       ing,  finding  shelter  from  the  storm,  though  hardly 


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from  homesickness,  in  a  little  tavern  of  the  village. 
Next  day  however  we  were  in  the  President's 
house,  and  soon  the  foundations  were  laid  of  a 
pleasant  home.  When  the  term  opened,  the  num- 
ber of  students,  large  and  small,  was  not  far  from 
two  hundred, — to  a  large  extent  young  men  and 
women  of  excellent  promise,  to  labor  for  whom 
was  a  pleasure. 

No  picture  of  Antioch  life  in  the  late  sixties  and 
seventies  would  be  at  all  fair  which  should  omit 
certain  pleasant  features,  some  of  which  were 
quite  peculiar  to  the  college.  At  frequent  intervals 
the  parlors,  halls  and  piazzas  of  the  President's 
house  were  thrown  open  to  the  students  and  their 
friends.  Light,  music,  flowers  made  the  occasions 
attractive;  the  evening  was  given  to  delightful 
and  refining  intercourse;  in  indirect  but  effective 
ways  the  young  men  and  women  were  brought 
under  humanizing  influences.  At  Thanksgivings, 
faculty  and  students  dined  together  in  the  com- 
mon hall,  an  atmosphere  of  good  cheer  and  good 
feeling  prevailing,  which  gave  these  occasions  the 


air  of  great  family  festivals.  At  Commencement 
for  several  years  one  evening  was  given  up  to  the 
presentation  of  some  noble  play  in  the  chapel,  the 
glen  being  rifled  of  its  green  and  flowers  to  make 
rich  the  mimic  garden,  the  village  ransacked  for 
properties  to  give  elegance  to  palace-hall,  the 
shapely  j^ouths  and  maids  reciting  as  they  moved 
therein  the  verses  of  our  grandest  poets.  These 
performances  I  had  the  privilege  of  superintend- 
ing, giving  to  them  much  enthusiasm  and  work. 
Naturally,  among  my  Antioch  reminiscences,  none 
are  so  pleasant  as  those  connected  with  the  plays. 
I  had  intended  to  write  of  them  afresh,  but  hap- 
pening to  take  up  an  almost  forgotten  Atlantic 
article  (which  I  wrote  twenty-five  years  ago)  to 
refresh  my  recollections,  I  feel  I  cannot  do  better 
than  quote  from  it  now.  It  was  probably  not 
much  read  at  the  time;  nobody  now  remembers 
it ;  and  at  this  distance  of  time  and  place  I  cannot 
make  so  vivid  a  picture  as  the  one  I  drew  on  the 
spot  while  the  matters  described  were  taking 
place. 


Iborace  /iftann  Centenary. 


"Our  play  at  the  last  Commencement  was 
'Much  Ado  about  Nothing.'  It  was  selected  six 
months  before,  and  studied  with  the  material  in 
mind,  the  students  in  the  literature  class,  available 
for  the  different  parts.  What  is  there,  thought  I, 
in  Beatrice— sprightliness  covering  intense  woman- 
ly feeling— that  our  vivacious,  healthful  Fanny 
Tucker  cannot  master;  and  what  in  Benedick,  her 
masuline  counterpart,  beyond  the  power  of  Cooke 
to  conceive  and  render  ?  It  is  chiefly  girlish  beauty 
and  simple  sweetness  that  Hero  requires,  so  she 
shall  be  Ada  Vail;  Claudio,  Leonato,  Don  John, 
Pedro —we  have  clean-limbed,  presentable  fellows 
that  will  look  and  speak  them  all  well ;  and  as  for 
lumbering  Dogberry,  Bergen,  with  his  fine  sense  of 
the  ludicrous  will  carry  it  out  in  the  best  manner. 
A  dash  of  the  pencil  here  and  there  through  the 
lines  where  Shakespeare  was  suiting  his  own  time, 
and  not  the  world  as  it  was  to  be  after  three  hun- 
dred refining  years,  and  the  marking  out  of  a  few 
scenes  that  could  be  spared  from  the  action,  and 
the  play  wvas  ready  ;   trimmed   a   little,   but   with 


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not  a  whit  taken  from  its  sparkle  or  pathos,  and 
all  its  lovelier  poetry  untouched. 

Then  came  long  weeks  of  drill.     In  the  passage, 
'0  my  lord, 
When  you  went  onward  to  this  ended  action, 
I  looked  upon  her  with  a  soldier's  eye, '  etc., 
Claudio  (Schenk)  caught  the  fervor  and  softness 
at  last,  and  seemed  like  Palamon,  in  love  indeed. 
Ursula  (Martha  Holden)  and  Hero  rose  easily  to 
the  delicate  poetrv  of  the  passages  that  begin, 
'  The  pleasantest  angling  is  to  see  the  fish 
Cut  with  her  golden  oars  the  silver  stream,' 
and 

'  Look  where  Beatrice  like  a  lapwing  runs.' 
Pedro  (Pitman)  got  to   perfection   his   turn    and 
gesture  in 

'  The  wolves  have  preyed  ;  and  look,  the  gentle  day, 
Before  the  wheels  of  Phoebus,  round  about 
Dapples  the  drowsy  east  with  spots  of  gray.' 
With   the  rough  comedy    of   Dogberry    and    the 
watchman,  that  foils  so  well  the  sad  tragedy  of 


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poor  Hero's  heart-breaking,  and  contrasts  in  its 
blunders  with  the  diamond-cut-diamond  dialogue 
of  Benedick  and  Beatrice,  there  was  less  difficulty. 
From  first  to  last,  it  was  engrossing  labor,  as 
hard  for  the  trainer  as  the  trained,  yet  still  delight- 
ful work,  for  what  is  a  conscientious  manager  but 
an  artist  striving  to  perfect  a  beautiful  dramatic 
picture  ?  The  different  personages  are  the  pieces 
for  his  mosaic,  who,  in  emphasis,  tone,  gesture, 
by-play,  must  be  carved  and  filed  until  there  are 
no  flaws  in  the  joining,  and  the  shading  is  perfect. 
But  all  was  ready  at  last,  from  the  roar  of  Dog- 
berry at  the  speech  of  Conrade, 

'  Away  !   you're  an  ass  !   you're  an  ass  ! ' 
to  the  scarcely  articulate  agony  of  Hero  when  she 
sinks  to  the  earth  at  her  lover's  sudden  accusation, 

'  0  Heavens !   how  am  I  beset ! 
What  kind  of  catechising  call  you  this  ?  ' 
I    fancy  you  ask,  rather  sneeringly,  as  to  our 
scenery   and   stage  adjuncts.     Is  it   wise  to   have 
only  sneers  for  what  can  be  brought  to  pass  with 


Centenary. 

modest  means  ?  Our  hall  at  Antioch  is  as  large  as 
the  Christ  Church  refectory  at  Oxford,  and  hand- 
somely proportioned  and  decorated.  A  wide  stage 
runs  across  the  end.  We  found  some  ample  cur- 
tains of  crimson,  set  off  with  a  heavy  yellow 
silken  border  of  quite  rich  material,  which  had 
been  used  to  drape  a  window  that  had  disap- 
peared in  the  course  of  repairs.  This,  stretched 
from  side  to  side,  made  a  wall  of  brilliant  color 
against  the  gray  tint  of  the  room.  The  stage  is 
the  one  thing  in  the  world  privileged  to  deceive. 
The  most  devoted  reader  of  Ruskin  can  tolerate 
shams  here.  The  costumes  were  devised  with  con- 
stant reference  to  Charles  Knight,  and,  to  the  eye, 
were  of  the  gayest  silk,  satin,  and  velvet.  There 
was,  moreover,  a  profusion  of  jewels,  which  for 
all  one  could  see,  sparkled  with  all  the  lustre  of 
the  great  Florentine  diamond,  as  you  see  it  sus- 
pended above  the  imperial  crowns  in  the  Austrian 
Schatz-Kammer  at  Vienna.  The  contrasts  of  tint 
were  well  attended  to.  Pedro  was  in  white  and 
gold,  Claudio  in  blue  and  silver,  Leonato  in  red, 


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while  our  handsome  Benedick,  a  youth  of  dark 
Italian  favor,  in  doublet  of  orange,  a  broad  black 
velvet  sash,  and  scarlet  cloak,  shone  like  a  bird  of 
paradise. 

There  was  a  garden-scene,  in  the  foreground  of 
which,  where  the  eyes  of  the  spectators  were  near 
enough  to  discriminate,  were  rustic  baskets  with 
geraniums,  fuchsias  and  cactuses,  to  give  a  south- 
ern air.  In  the  middle  distance,  armfuls  of  honey- 
suckle in  full  bloom  were  brought  in  and  twined 
about  white  pilasters.  There  was  an  arbor  over- 
hung with  heavy  masses  of  the  trumpet-creeper. 
A  tall  column  or  two  surmounted  with  graceful 
garden-vases  were  covered  about  with  raspberry- 
vines,  the  stems  of  brilliant  scarlet  showing 
among  the  green.  A  thick  clump  of  dogwood, 
whose  large  white  blossoms  could  easily  pass  for 
magnolias,  gave  background.  The  green  was  lit 
with  showy  color  of  every  sort,— handfuls  of  nas- 
turtiums, now  and  then  a  peony,  larkspurs  for 
blue,  patches  of  poppies,  and  in  the  garden-vases 
high  on  the  pillars   ( the  imposition  ! )   clusters  of 


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pink  holtyhocks  which  were  meant  to  pass  for  ole- 
ander blossoms,  and  did.  It  was  brought  in  at 
sundown,  still  wet  with  the  drops  of  the  after- 
noon shower,  which  had  not  dried  away  when  all 
was  in  place.  First  it  was  given  under  gas  ;  then, 
the  hall  being  darkened,  a  magnesium-light  gave  a 
moon-like  radiance,  in  which  the  dew  on  the  buds 
glistened,  and  the  mignonette  seemed  to  exhale  a 
double  perfume,  and  a  dreamy  melody  of  Mendels" 
sohn  sung  by  two  sweet-girl  voices  floated  out 
about  the  '  pleached  bower ',  like  a  song  of  night- 
ingales. Then  toward  the  end  came  the  scene  of 
the  chapel  and  Hero's  tomb.  To  theeye,  our  Hero's 
tomb  was  a  block  of  spotless  marble  seen  against 
a  background  of  black,  with  a  fair  figure  recum- 
bent upon  it,  whose  palms  and  lids  and  draping 
the  chisel  of  an  artist  seemed  to  have  folded  and 
closed  and  hung, — all  idealized  again  by  the  magic 
of  the  magnesium-light.  As  the  crimson  curtain 
was  drawn  apart,  an  organ  sounded,  and  a  far- 
away choir  sent  into  the  hush  the  '  Ave  Verum  '  of 
Mozart,  low-breathed  and  solemn. 


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Iborace  /lfcann  Centenary. 


They  were  American  young  men  and  3^onng  wo- 
men, with  no  resources  but  those  of  a  fresh- water 
college,  and  such  as  their  own  taste  and  the 
woods  and  gardens  could  furnish  ;  but  the  young 
men  were  shapely  and  intelligent,  and  the  young 
women  had  grace  and  brightness ;  their  hearts 
were  in  it,  and  in  the  result  surely  there  was  a 
measure  of  '  sweetness  and  light ',  for  them  and 
for  those  who  beheld.  " 


The  time  from  '66  to  '73  was  not  the  great  time 
of  Antioch.  Nevertheless  the  traditions  of  Horace 
Mann  were  well  preserved.  A  dignified  and  benev- 
olent President  was  at  the  head  ;  among  the  Pro- 
fessors were  many  of  abilitv  ;  among  the  students 
much  zeal  and  power.  The  teachers  and  the 
taught  of  those  years,  now  becoming  so  remote, 
look  back  upon  them  with  pensive  pleasure. 

James  K.  Hosmer. 


ANTIOCH   IN    THE  SEVENTIES 


"  Oh  to  think  of  it ;    oh  to  dream  of  it !  " 

(Kerry  Dunce.) 

I  sit  with  my  face  towards  the  rocky  ledges  of 
the  Coast  Range,  looking  eastward.  The  charm 
of  California  was  never  more  persuasive.  The 
rains,  for  which  we  had  to  wait  long,  have  tinged 
the  low  growth  on  the  mesas  with  hues  still  som- 
bre, but  relieved  by  bright  strips  of  grain,  and 
toned  in  the  distance  into  the  blue  haze  of  the 


mountains.  But  I  am  looking  eastward.  And  my 
thought,  escaping  the  fascination  of  a  land  where 
nature  is  as  all,  and  even  oppresses  the  sense  which 
cannot  free  itself  from  the  associations  of  other 
scenes  and  yield  unreservedly  to  her  power,  alights 
in  a  little  corner  of  the  earth,  a  quiet  nook,  where 
one  takes  nature  as  it  were  by  the  hand,  and  sits 
with  her  in  friendly  converse.  Twenty  years  soon 
slip  by.   And  twenty  years  of  changeful  experience 


Iborace  /Ifcann 

have  passed  sinee  I  searched  the  woods  there  for 
the  Erigenia,  the  harbinger  of  spring.  But  time 
can  never  dim  the  recollection  of  those  tranquil 
clays.  Time  indeed,  though  it  works  changes  of  its 
own  upon  our  impressions,  seems  with  the  passing 
years  to  weave  certain  of  our  memories  more  close- 
ly into  the  texture  of  the  mind.  And  Antioch's  in- 
fluence, Antioch's  associations,  have  this  enduring 
quality.  They  are  imperishable  elements  of  my  life. 
And  what  I  owe  to  Antioch,  I  owe  indirectly  to 
Horace  Mann.  But  in  my  time,  which  was  early 
in  the  seventies,  Horace  Mann,  save  as  insepera- 
ble  from  his  work,  was  no  more  than  a  tradition- 
I  never  saw  his  face.  He  had  finished  his  task, 
that  is,  the  direct  work  of  his  hand,  and  others 
had  entered  into  his  labors.  And  I  suppose,  judg- 
ing from  what  I  could  learn  of  his  spirit  and  meth 
ods,that  the  atmosphere  of  the  school  had  in  some 
degree  changed  since  it  had  felt  the  influence  of  his 
personal  control.  I  should  say — perhaps  those 
who  knew  the  earlier  Antioch  and  its  founder 
would  dispute  the  statement — that  its  spirit  was 


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broader.  He  had  the  make-up  and  the  aims  of  a 
born  educator.  But  in  the  strength  of  his  reform- 
atory zeal  there  was  a  suggestion  of  the  school- 
master's (  shall  I  say  the  moralist's  )  narrowness, 
a  too  confident  reliance  upon  mere  rules  and  direct 
moral  teaching,  as  compared  with  the  indirect  but 
deeper  and  more  humanizing  influence  of  a  broad 
mental  culture.  But  the  broad  mental  culture  was 
given,  and  it  had  its  effect.  *  *  And  in  Antioch 
as  I  knew  her,  along  with  the  passion  for  work, 
and  a  generous  hospitality  to  all  forms  of  thought, 
there  was  on  the  whole  a  surprising  geniality  and 
soundness  of  tone,  without  much  religious  phras- 
ing or  a  too  self-conscious  morality.  The  hard 
work  of  a  really  good  education  is  itself  a  moral 
discipline,  and  that  work  had  begun  to  tell.  In 
fact,  the  earnest,  unpretending  life  of  that  little 
community  in  it^  student  days  seems  to  me  now, 
at  least  in  comparison  with  the  life  of  the  great 
world,  little  less  than  ideal.  But  if  Antioch  had  in 
this  sense  developed,  the  initiatory  impulse  had 
come  from  Horace  Mann.    The  spirit   which  per- 


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vaded  her  work  and  her  social  relations  was,  in 
its  developed  form,  the  spirit  which  he  had  origi- 
nally breathed  into  her  life. 

And  the  four  years  that  I  lived  under  the  influ- 
ence of  that  spirit,  I  look  back  upon  as  among  the 
happiest  I  ever  spent.  I  could  have  been  content 
to  stay  (let  no  satirical  young  "fresh"  say,  to 
sleep)  within  the  sound  of  the  college  bell  all  my 
life — making  due  allowance,  of  course,  for  inex- 
plicable accident  to  the  bell.  The  little  society 
there,  organized  on  the  principle  of  co-education, 
then  still  in  the  experimental  stage,  was  in  a 
sense  complete  in  itself.  True,  the  Crescents  some- 
times attempted,  it  seemed  to  me,  to  prove  that 
co-education  is  impossible  in  practice,  by  making 
life  miserable,  for  instance,  for  the  Adelphians  or 
the  Stars.  But  riper  experience  has  convinced  me 
that  an  important  function  of  the  Crescent,  and  of 
women  generally,  is  to  inure  man  to  the  cross, 
and  I  am  equally  convinced  that  in  school,  or 
out  of  school,  she  will  do  her  duty.  I  had  simply 
failed  to  grasp   all  the  implications  of  the  the- 


ory. And  no  causticity  of  the  feminine  mind 
(editorial)  was  ever  remembered  at  the  matron's 
receptions.  The  educated  woman  retained  there 
all  her  social  adroitness  and  graces,  and  taught  us 
that  no  intellectual  discipline  will  make  her  less 
than  woman  or  less  indispensable  to  man.  Thus 
our  world  was  in  its  way  complete.  It  had  its 
own  tasks,  its  own  relaxation,  and,  with  the  help 
of  symathizing  friends,  its  own  independent  life ; 
and  the  student  who  staid  in  it  long  enough  to 
fairly  catch  its  spirit  could  not  fail  to  carry 
through  life  a  beneficent  sense  of  the  superiority  of 
its  ideals.  Quiet  toil  and  steady  self-development 
took  the  place  there  of  the  pretense  and  the  noisy 
display  which  divert  so  much  of  the  world's  atten- 
tion from  the  worlds'  proper  work,  and  obscure 
the  fact  that  the  roots  of  the  virtues,  intellectual 
and  moral,  must  thrive,  if  at  all,  under  ground. 

The  humanizing  effect  of  Antioch's  culture 
would  doubtless  have  been  more  complete  if  liter- 
ature had  been  as  seriously  studied  as  the  sciences. 
Sound  instruction  in  the  ancient  classics  did  much, 


to  be  sure,  to  cure  this  defect 
at  Antioeh,  and  what  I  may  call  the  bias  of  her 
teaching,  gave  an  extraordinary  impulse  to  the 
study  of  nature.  All  through  the  glen,  and  for 
miles  around,  I  suppose  not  a  stone  was  left  un- 
turned that  might  hide  a  beetle  or  some  lowly 
type  of  life.  And  in  this  scrutiny  of  natural  forms 
which  extended,  of  course,  to  the  constituents  of 
the  rich  fossiliferous  rocks  of  the  region,  the  per- 
sistence and  finer  sense  of  woman  fairly  matched 
masculine  strength.  In  fact,  it  gave  one  a  new  con- 
ception of  woman's  vocation  to  find  her  studying 
with  equal  address  the  structure  of  the  latin  period 
and  the  anatomy  of  the  snake.  It  became  quite 
clear  that  when  the  world  should  be  made  over  she 
would  rate  as  something  more  than  a  sensitive  toy, 
or  a  mere  bundle  of  disordered  nerves;  would  take 
her  place,  in  a  word,  as  a  human  being  with  the 


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But  the  situation       full  human    endowment,   looking  at  nature  with 


intelligent  curiosity,  and  not  debarred  by  her  deli- 
cate organization  from  the  study  of  facts. 

Unfortunately  Antioeh  was  hindered  in  her  de- 
velopment by  the  narrowness  of  her  means.  And 
in  estimating  her  value  as  an  educational  force,  or 
as  an  expression  of  the  principles  and  aims  of  her 
founder,  one  must  bear  in  mind  that  she  could  not 
be  all  that  she  would.  But  she  was  much — more 
than  I  can  express — to  me ;  and  I  shall  always 
look  back  upon  the  brief  years  that  I  spent  in  her 
ardent  communion  of  teachers  and  learners,  with 
its  freedom  from  false  ideals  and  false  social  tests, 
its  hearty  recognition  of  merit,  its  intellectual 
earnestness,  and  its  religious  breadth,  with  grate- 
ful and  affectionate  remembrance. 

Frederick  Meakin. 

San  Diego,  Cal.,  March  25,  1896. 


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Edward  Everett  Hale, 

Trustee  of  Antioch  College  1865,   to  the  Present  date. 

In  this  capacity,  as  in  every  other,  he  has  done    "his  LEVEL  BEST," 

AND   STEADILY    "  LENT  A    HAND." 


Dr.   Edward  Orton 


Dr.  Edward  Orton,  born  in  New  York  State, 
March  9,  1829,  has  been  a  student  and  teacher  all 
his  life.  President  of  Antioch  in  1872,  and  Presi- 
dent of  Ohio  State  University  in  1873,  he  resigned 
the  latter  position  in  1881  in  order  to  devote  him- 
self to  the  chair  of  geology  in  the  same  institution, 
and  to  the  duties  of  State  geologist. 

"  The  rocks  have  been  his  scroll;   the  stones  the 


sermons,  wherein  he  has  read  the  wonderful  handi- 
work of  the  Almighty.  He  has  walked  in  paths 
where  few  of  his  time  have  trodden,  and  he  has 
reaped  lessons  from  the  fields  of  the  universe  which 
have  but  opened  to  him  new  avenues  in  the  vast 
wilderness  of  the  creation,  the  which  he  has  fal- 
lowed through  the  advancing  years.  He  has  been 
a  writer  of  books,  a  teacher  of  men." 


Columbus  Dispatch,  Jan.    1,    1896. 


Hon.  Francis  A.  Palmer. 


.p. 


•&• 


To  the  Hon.  Francis  A.  Palmer,  one  of  Antioch's 
first  trustees,  and  once  more,  at  present,  a  trustee, 
who  in  1859  gave  her  a  new  lease  of  life,  and  who 
has  often  shown  his  interest  in  her  since  then,  we 
owe  one  of  the  pleasantest  features  of  this  centen- 
nial year,  the  endowment  of  a  chair  of  Christian 
Ethics.  No  chair  more  characteristic,  more  truly 
commemorative  of  Horace  Mann's  life  and  spirit 
and  aims,  could  have  been  chosen.  Antiochians 
feel  a  heart\^  debt  of  gratitude  to  its  founder,  and 
will  repay  the  debt  with  interest. 


WILLIAM  CHANNING  RUSSELL. 


Prof.  William  Charming  Russell  died  Feb.  24, 
1896,  at  his  home  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  aged 
eighty-two.  His  connection  with  Antioch  Col 
lege  in  1865,  as  Professor  of  History,  conferred 
upon  her  an  honor  which  later  Antioch  appre- 
ciates, and  is  proud  to  record. 


AARON  BURT  CHAMPION. 


Aaron  Burt  Champion,  horn  in  Columbus,  0., 
Feb.  9,  1842,  died  in  London,  England,  Sept.  6, 
1895,  and  is  interred  in  Kensal  Green  Cemetery. 
As  treasurer  of  Antioch  College,  he  served  her  in- 
terests wisely  and  well,  and  was  in  all  ways  a 
true  friend  whose  absence  is  her  loss. 


"Here's  to  our  college— God  bless  her ! 

Here's  to  the  clay  of  her  birth ! 
Here's  to  her  beauty,  and  health,  and  wealth  ! 

May  she  shine  like  a  star  upon  earth  ! 
And  here's  to  the  men  and  women 

Who  shall  sing  and  speak  and  rhyme 
When  a  hundred  more  years  of  laughter  and  tears 

Shall  have  passed  through  the  gates  of  time!  " 
—Zella  Keid  Crony n, 

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